Friday Wandering

Happy Valentines Day everyone!

This is my effort to not keep you waiting another week for a post. Lots of little posts sounds like a better plan. Also I apologize to all my grammatically, punctuation-ally and overall-decent-writing-ally sensitive followers. I obviously don't (and will continue not to) review and edit these posts before publishing them. I sometimes read them again later and feel sorry for you guys trying to figure out what I'm saying, but overall you get the gist and that's what's important.

My newest project in my multi-discipline class (from here on known as multi-d) involves trying to eliminate wasteful packaging from a band/store found in London. My group, consisting of an industrial designer, interior designer and me, have decided to try and re-think packaging for cosmetics. We're still picking the specific brand. To get a better feel for our subject, the ID kid and I did some field research. We went to a place in London called Seven Dials ( http://www.sevendials.co.uk/ ). It was wonderful. The shops were so much fun just to go in and look around. After we bothered the ladies in a ton of cosmetics store we did some more exploring. There was this awesome store where everything was crazy patterned, and another with amazing so smart toys and trinkets and beard hats and a mirror with a mustache built into it. OMG. It was my favorite ever. I have to go back. Too bad the beard hats were L60 (that's my lazy british pound symbol).

After that outing I went to meet Haley at Leicester Square tube station. I got there early and walked around the neighborhood checking out what the stores and street vendors were selling. I even sat in the square with the pidgins and sketched a bit in the watercolor book my mom bought me. There was only one problem with the whole situation. I wasn't supposed to be meeting Haley at the Leicester Station... it was the Liverpool one. Oops. As soon as I realized my mistake I scooted my way across London as fast as I could to meet up with poor Haley. Julie also scooted from another part of town. Finally, the whole expedition party was assembled. We hopped on a train to one of London's suburbs so that Haley could do some research for her CMD project.

The train ride was ridiculous. The entire cabin was packed with people who were not talking. Seriously. I was only whispering to Haley and I was being too loud. It was bizarre. When we got to our destination we happily skipped off the train and into the 'burbs (where we were allowed to talk).

Pretty much we proceeded to have such a suburban night. We window shopped and played in Primark (the British Target) and tired on ridiculous things without buying anything. Reminds me of the good ole days back home. After getting bored of being ridiculous we went to a local pub and got super cheap pub food and drink. I got a lamb mint burger and a pint of Guinness. Yum!

A bit less oppressive train ride later we ended up back at my apartment where we drank tea and watched Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog and other fun things on YouTube.



This morning Bri and I woke everyone else with lovely music and our even lovelier faces so that we could make them a fancy French toast breakfast for Valentines day. The rest of the day is still in the making. I'll keep you posted. Take care everyone! Love!